Mariana Mesa

Mariana Mesa Pineda (born 1 April 1980) is a Colombian former professional tennis player.

Biography Tennis career Mesa, who grew up in the city of Pereira, made her Fed Cup debut in 1995, having just turned 15. She featured in a total of 12 ties for Colombia during her career, mostly as doubles player, winning seven matches overall.

On the WTA Tour, she made most of her main-draw appearances at her home event, the Copa Colsanitas, playing in every edition of the tournament from 1998 to 2000. She had her best performance in 1998, when she made the round of 16 of the singles and was a doubles semifinalist. Her only other singles main draw came at the 1999 Brasil Open, which she made as a qualifier.

Mesa reached a best singles ranking on tour of 251 in the world and won five ITF Women's Circuit tournaments. As a doubles player she had a top ranking of 161, with seven ITF titles.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Mesa represented Colombia in the doubles competition, with Fabiola Zuluaga as her partner.

Life after tennis Mesa now coaches tennis and also works as broadcaster with Win Sports. She studied political science at Universidad Javeriana.

ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (5–2) OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfaceOpponentScoreWinner 1. 18 September 1994 ITF Manizales, Colombia Clay Stephania Gehrke 6–3, 6–4Winner 2. 6 July 1998 ITF Vigo, Spain Clay Paula Racedo 6–1, 6–4Winner 3. 13 September 1998 ITF Lima, Peru Clay Sabrina Valenti 6–0, 7–6Winner 4. 23 May 1999 ITF Zaragoza, Spain Clay Luciana Masante 1–6, 6–4, 6–1Winner 5. 29 August 1999 ITF La Paz, Bolivia Clay Melisa Arévalo 6–1, 6–4Runner-up 1. 26 September 1999 ITF Asunción, Paraguay Clay María Emilia Salerni 6–3, 6–7, 5–7Runner-up 2. 3 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires, Argentina Clay Romina Ottoboni 6–7(3), 2–6

Doubles: 14 (7–7) OutcomeNo.DateTournamentSurfacePartnerOpponentsScoreRunner-up 1. 11 September 1995 ITF Bucaramanga, Colombia Clay Carmiña Giraldo Joanne Moore Ximena Rodríguez 5–7, 6–4, 4–6Runner-up 2. 22 June 1998 ITF Santander, Spain Clay Juliana Garcia Marina Escobar Lourdes Domínguez Lino 1–6, 6–7(1)Winner 1. 7 September 1998 ITF Lima, Peru Clay Nina Nittinger Natalia Gussoni Sabrina Valenti 6–3, 7–5Runner-up 3. 30 November 1998 ITF Bogotá, Colombia Clay Fabiola Zuluaga Katarina Srebotnik Zuzana Váleková 3–6, 4–6Winner 2. 23 May 1999 ITF Zaragoza, Spain Clay Lourdes Domínguez Lino Melisa Arévalo Jorgelina Torti w/oRunner-up 4. 31 May 1999 ITF Azeméis, Portugal Hard Jorgelina Torti Kelly Liggan Tzipora Obziler 4–6, 6–4, 6–7(6)Winner 3. 2 August 1999 ITF Caracas, Venezuela Hard Melisa Arévalo Gabriela Voleková Aliénor Tricerri 7–5, 7–6(1)Winner 4. 23 August 1999 ITF La Paz, Bolivia Clay Melisa Arévalo Helga Vieira Ana Paula Novaes 6–1, 6–4Runner-up 5. 19 September 1999 ITF Asunción, Paraguay Hard Aliénor Tricerri Rossana de los Ríos Larissa Schaerer 2–6, 3–6Winner 5. 5 December 1999 ITF Cali, Colombia Clay Fabiola Zuluaga Miriam D'Agostini Larissa Schaerer 2–6, 7–6, 6–1Runner-up 6. 24 July 2000 ITF Pamplona, Spain Hard Leanne Baker Yvette Basting Mia Buric 2–6, 0–6Runner-up 7. 3 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires 2 Clay Larissa Schaerer Melisa Arévalo Paula Racedo 3–6, 5–7Winner 6. 10 September 2000 ITF Buenos Aires 3 Clay Romina Ottoboni Sabrina Valenti Natalia Gussoni 1–6, 6–4, 6–3Winner 7. 8 October 2000 ITF Mexico City Hard Branka Bojović Alejandra Rivero Zerene Reyes 5–3, 4–0, 3–5